- Published: 29 November 2018
- ISBN: 9781405924061
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
Zoo City
The gripping novel from the author of Apple TV’s Shining Girls
- Published: 29 November 2018
- ISBN: 9781405924061
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
[Beukes] brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now
Guardian
Lauren Beukes is very, *very* good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished
William Gibson
A fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer ... [It] has so much fabulous wordplay, imaginative settings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart that I was totally riveted by it
Cory Doctorow
Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria ... crackles with original ideas ... Beukes skilfully employs all the twists of first-rate noir ... powerful indeed
Jeff Vandermeer, <i>New York Times</i>
Beukes delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the "urban fantasy" subgenre back towards its groundbreaking roots
Publishers Weekly
Energetic and imaginative ... Packed with colour, dark humour and thought-provoking ideas, Zoo City is an absolute must for anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre
SFX Magazine
Original and unputdownable
Cosmopolitan
An unpredictable and helluva awesome read
Heat
Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas
Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review
Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it's going to be huge
Paul Cornell
I couldn't put this down. It's weird, thrilling, funny... filled with sleazy characters and lots of bad attitude
Mike Nicol
Lauren Beukes is very, very good
William Gibson
An unfamiliar land full of familiars, a broken Johannesburg peopled with damaged wonders... If our words are bullets, Lauren Beukes is a marksman in a world of drunken machine-gunners
Bill Willingham
Zoo City is pure originality ... a book that had me reading it revelling in Beukes' magical way with words
SF Signal
At times the witty and lyrical prose is sheer magic, the story captivating and the characters exotic, cruel and beautiful while the backdrop of Johannesburg seethes with hidden, lurking dangers around every corner, Zoo City is quite simply captivating
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